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As exercises in diplomacy go, it is no mean feat: getting representatives from
193 countries to come to an agreement on the UN’s budget.

Not least, according to one key member state, because many of those
representatives turn up to meetings staggeringly drunk.

The United States has called for a ban on these drunken diplomats at the world
body’s budgetary negotiations, lamenting that the laborious process of
deciding how the UN should spend its money is hindered further by officials
in attendance consuming copious amounts of alcohol.

“We make the modest proposal that the negotiating rooms should in future be